Title: Clients We Recommend
Date: 11-01-2018
Modified: 12-01-2018
Slug: clients-we-recommend

In order to connect to our service, you will need an XMPP client. The following
are the clients that we recommend, by platform. All of these clients:

* Are open source
* Support [OMEMO][1]

We will also try to provide setup instructions where this is not immediately
clear. Please let a community organizer know if you'd like further elaboration.

## Android

We recommend [Conversations][2]. You can get it from [F-Droid][3], and set up is
pretty straightforward. You will have OMEMO support out of the box, as long as
you click the 'lock' icon at the top of the conversation window (which is
toggled to 'off' by default). Conversations is also available from the Play
Store, but it costs money in this case.

## iOS

We recommend [ChatSecure][6], which is available from the App Store. 

## Linux

The client of choice is [Pidgin][4] if you want a graphical client, or
[Finch][5] otherwise. You will need the [lurch][7] plugin for OMEMO, and
[carbons][8] to share messages across devices. At least one distro (Arch Linux)
packages these, but building them shouldn't prove a huge challenge.

## macOS

We suggest using [Adium][9], because it has easy OMEMO support with
[Lurch4Adium][10]. You don't even need to build from source, as [source packages
of Lurch4Adium][11] are available.

## Windows

The best choice on Windows is [Pidgin][4]. You can get Windows-friendly builds
of the lurch plugin [here][12], along with setup instructions.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OMEMO
[2]: https://conversations.im/
[3]: https://f-droid.org/packages/eu.siacs.conversations/
[4]: https://pidgin.im/
[5]: https://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/Using%20Finch
[6]: https://chatsecure.org/
[7]: https://github.com/gkdr/lurch
[8]: https://github.com/gkdr/carbons
[9]: https://adium.im/
[10]: https://github.com/shtrom/Lurch4Adium
[11]: https://github.com/shtrom/Lurch4Adium/releases
[12]: https://eion.robbmob.com/lurch/
